Struggling Irish women are selling sex because of financial pressures and to enhance their lifestyles.

Undercover Irish Mirror reporters interacted with 15 females on the Seeking Arrangement website – with 12 of those listed as Irish and nine claiming to be students.

And during online chats within a 24-hour period three offered sex for money, with one claiming she needed extra cash for a €4,000 boob job.

Amy [not her real name] said she was a student from Dublin and offered to sleep with our reporter for €300, saying it could be easily set-up.

Asked if she was comfortable to meet up with a stranger without meeting first in a public place for an introduction, she replied: “I don’t have any issues haha, I always tell my flatmate where I go (not what I’m doing though hahaha).”

On her profile page, the-19 year-old blonde, who said she is looking for discretion and “no-strings-attached fun” urges visitors to her page to “message me what you got to offer”.

She poses scantily clad in lingerie in a bathroom in a series of revealing shots on the public website, which claims to have as many as 10,000 Irish members.

A second woman Louise, [again not her real name] claimed she was a beauty student with ambitions of opening her own salon – and said she needed €4,000 for a boob job.

Commenting on her profile page she said: “It would be like all my birthdays come at once or winning the Lotto if a gentleman would donate for them to be done.”

During a private message exchange she added: “How long would you want to meet, [would] 1pm to 2pm be OK? Some men do look for different things.”

Seekingarrangement.com claims the number of cash-strapped students turning to so-called “sugar daddy dating” to pay their way through college has more than doubled here in just four years.

Ruhama chief Sarah Benson slammed the website as a “front”, saying: “We’ve been aware of Seeking Arrangement and we’re not surprised at all to know it is being used as many other different websites can be used as a front for what can only really be described as prostitution.

"We would be concerned that vulnerable young women who may be in very difficult circumstances may consider this a benign option, whereas actually prostitution is well known to be dangerous and exploitative, no matter what the front is for it.

“There’s research to show there can be quite significant negative impacts of being involved in prostitution and they can include mental health, psychological and physical health.”

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Meanwhile, 22-year-old Amanda, [also not her real name] who claims to be an arts student at Trinity College, enquired asked in her first communication with our reporter if online payment was an option, asking: “Do you do PPM?”

She then suggested meeting for a date for €200 but added “normally on the first date nothing would typically happen unless we both wanted it to”.

A fourth woman Susan, 27, [also not her real name] from Belfast, messaged the Irish Mirror fake profile, trying to arrange an afternoon date and sex with our reporter for €280.

She said: “I’ve been a sugar baby for two years on and off and I have had two long-term sugar daddies.

“Yeah sugar is the way forward for a lot of people, the normal dating scene can be a bit hard nowadays and guys normally like a younger good looking woman so this site is ideal.”

Susan, who works in sales, said she uses mobiles registered in the North and South to communicate with men on the site before swapping telephone numbers and arranging “dates”.